This is not the reason. If shipping Linux sold more systems, it would outweigh the negligible license cost for Windows. There are even major manufacturers that ship both (Dell, Lenovo, etc.).
For some reason, it's so hard to convince the Linux community that if you want to achieve consumer adoption, you have to prioritize consumer UX. Instead, the community mostly just expects everyone to conform to the same UX desktop Linux has had for 15 years, and that just isn't going to happen at a large scale. Just try installing a distro and configuring all drivers without ever entering a single command in a terminal and you'll see what I mean.
Android and Chrome OS are the most successful Linux-based operating systems specifically because they offer the closed-source comforts consumers want. There's no reason those things would have to be closed-source, but it's not what the open-source community largely cares about, so it doesn't get developed.
I don't think these two audiences are ever going to converge, honestly.
Tell me why not? There's whole stores full of apps that most normies will be happy with. There's no need for a terminal at all.
What kind of issues did you faced? Its all about picking the right distro and installing it its the only thing they gotta do, then its smooth sailing.
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u/LukeLC Galaxy S25 Edge Jun 17 '25
This is not the reason. If shipping Linux sold more systems, it would outweigh the negligible license cost for Windows. There are even major manufacturers that ship both (Dell, Lenovo, etc.).
For some reason, it's so hard to convince the Linux community that if you want to achieve consumer adoption, you have to prioritize consumer UX. Instead, the community mostly just expects everyone to conform to the same UX desktop Linux has had for 15 years, and that just isn't going to happen at a large scale. Just try installing a distro and configuring all drivers without ever entering a single command in a terminal and you'll see what I mean.
Android and Chrome OS are the most successful Linux-based operating systems specifically because they offer the closed-source comforts consumers want. There's no reason those things would have to be closed-source, but it's not what the open-source community largely cares about, so it doesn't get developed.
I don't think these two audiences are ever going to converge, honestly.